When I look back onto my middle school career, I am often surprised by how much things that happened over decades ago can still make me blush and feel terribly uncomfortable. They’re really not things that I invite back in my life to relive over and over, but, rather, subconscious memories that I never took time to internalize and deal with at the actual moment that they occurred. And, as an adult, when I find myself in an emotional state that I can’t control with the various coping mechanisms I have cultivated over the years, I am wide open to…